OldSchoolSnapper

I absolutely hate the trend of photoshopping players' new uniforms on them when they sign FA deals in all sports. I can hear my journalism school advisor screaming from the grave.

They are rounding out to where I hoped they'd be, a top 5 team in the East. I think father time or father suck has caught up to most of the roster, but who knows. Maybe a lucky run late in the year with Middleton.

Tampa is such an interesting team. I really hope they don't end up winning that division. That is 100% a losable game for GB in the first round. I mean I guess anything is, but I would not like that matchup.

The Lions have blown out the cellar dwellers. Like annihilated them. I don't, however, understand where all this "unbeatable" stuff comes from. They have a less than 7 margin of victory against anyone who isn't Dallas, Indy or Jacksonville. When I compare to historic benchmark teams that, when you watched, you really had the sense nobody could compete with them (96 Packers, 07 Patriots who funny enough didn't win, 98 Vikings who also didn't win LOL), they do not carry that level of dominance to me. If you are asking me to pick my team right now to win the SB, I'd pick them. I think they are a very good and disciplined team that doesn't beat themselves for the most part. But I don't even view them the same way I viewed the Seahawks in '14 where I really did not think the Packers had any shot of going in to Seattle and winning. Unpopular opinion but I thought the Packers actually slowed them down defensively better than most teams had. I would still consider GB an underdog, but I just thought that game was a burn the tape game where we just had way too many unforced errors to compete. Frankly the way GB played I'm surprised it wasn't of the 52-6 variety. I'd give the Packers a puncher's chance in a playoff game, and I'd give Philly a better shot than that as well as any of the other formidable teams. I don't think Detroit is going to just cakewalk through the conference like it seems most people believe. At a minimum, I don't see them as even remotely unbeatable.

To be honest I'd feel better if they didn't even play Middleton until April and get him in game shape at the end of the season. I'd roll the dice on that as opposed to him playing now and expecting him to be available when it counts.

The Lions will quickly go from everyone's darling to everyone's enemy about a year after winning the Super Bowl when people grow tired of 50-point games, "Opponent Sucks" shirts, trick plays up 3 TDs, the coach going from "intense" to "arrogant"...it happens with everybody. McKinney was correct when he mentioned them wanting to humiliate people. More power to them, I guess. They're good, I would say Super Bowl favorite. I think people are exaggerating the gap a bit though.

They still play the Bills and Lions. I am not too concerned about them either way. Should have beaten them last year, definitely should beat them this year.

It is a bit early for all this yet, but, I would like the Packers to finish 6th assuming they can't catch anyone for the division. That would likely assure they avoid going to Philly until the NFCCG. Probably a 2nd round matchup with Detroit, which I prefer to Philly even though I think they'd be unlikely to win either one. I could stomach losing to DET easier than Philly. And I'd rather that team be in a dome in January. Both 6 and 5 could very well be favorites in their first round road trips.

I'm glad to see us running up the score on SF. Genuinely.

It's getting old though. The guy throws an incomplete pass and he should have checked it down. The dude threw a long completion last week and there were 3 immediate posts about how bad of a throw it was because it was into coverage. Every single thing the dude does is under a microscope. I've said myself he's not having a good season, but there's been very little in this game to be concerned about. His box score is bad, that's about it. They've dominated the LOS and frankly he just wasn't asked to do that much today. He had one great TD pass that his WR didn't catch. I never expected he would look amazing Year 1 - Year 15. The 49ers haven't lost a game this season by more than one score outside of Kansas City. They're not playing the Jaguars again.

I'm sorry, and I'll get lit on fire, but this place is outrageously harsh on Jordan Love.

Allen is a stiff and the Packers have been in control of this game the entire time. Nobody would be saying he outplayed Love if Love was 10/19 for 168 and 2 TDs. Which is what he should be. The entire strategy has clearly been to bottle McCaffrey. Allen has made 1 or 2 good throws. The rest has been a bag of meh.

Jacobs is one of the most underrated players in the league this year. He has been every bit as good as advertised.

Completely random thought. I've always believed that a 1 yard touchdown should count as 5 yards to not screw up the player's ypc 😂

McKinney is twice the player we paid Jaire to be.

Good stop. Put points up and that should be the death blow.

I've seen this elsewhere this year and I've wondered myself if there's data that shows kickoffs are more likely to have fumbles or something + a low risk of someone taking it out far enough to matter. I don't know. Just a thought I've had - that some teams think it's worth it to not do that.

It's 17-7 and the 49ers had absolutely no pulse until that last drive. If I just skimmed this thread I would think it's 7-7.

I just don't get that. We played that drive like we didn't have 2 timeouts.

Watson drop sucked but I don't know why we deemed 3 consecutive chucks to be the only play. Could have stayed creative and gotten a FG in before half. Just bad management from MLF.

The Salute to Service gear this year looks really cool.

The "controversy" is that the Bears got called for a leverage penalty or whatever on a FG recently. If you compare the two plays, they are not even remotely similar.

Not sure that's hot. He was bad his first two seasons, arguably showed some promise and just raw athleticism his first year, but not bad enough to write off. He's substantially worse this year pretending to be a linebacker in the new scheme. I think there's a place for him in the league has a pass-rush specialist. He's not the all-around linebacker they're pretending he is or that you draft in the 1st round.

Jones was fully available for about 6 games. That ends the Jacobs debate right there. They absolutely made the correct decision.

There were a lot of favorable outcomes for GB today. You'd have to think if they beat SF they have essentially clinched a playoff spot. It's hard to see them falling out of the top 7 especially if they win next week. Finishing in the top 6 would be preferable to avoid a likely trip out to Philly in the first round.